Who are the real freaks of Big 12 Football?

[elguapo 4,583]

Derka's excellent thread and our impending departure from the big 12 got me thinking about who the freakiest players from the conference have been.

I'll start with the 10 that first came to mind for me:

VY

Ricky

Bijan

Mahomes

Adrian Peterson

Evil Roy Williams

Suh

Terrell Owens

RG3

Von Miller

 

Who you got?

 

 

 

[Uncle Nate 2,097]

13 minutes ago, elguapo said:

Derka's excellent thread and our impending departure from the big 12 got me thinking about who the freakiest players from the conference have been.

I'll start with the 10 that first came to mind for me:

VY

Ricky

Bijan

Mahomes

Adrian Peterson

Evil Roy Williams

Suh

Terrell Owens

RG3

Von Miller

 

Who you got?

 

 

 

Terrell Owens?   Didn't he go to like Tennessee-Chattanooga or something like that?

I would add to your list:

1. Dez Bryant

2. Seneca Wallace

3. Justin Blackmon

4. Earl Thomas

5. Nathan Vasher

6. Michael Crabtree

7. Dat Nguyen

 

[Not a cat 5,618]

Terrell was such a freak he made UT Chattanooga leave the conference.

Edit -Uncle Nate beat me to it.

Edited May 16, 2023 by Not a cat

[Tylerocks 2,551]

Duh, Teddy Lehman

[cochamps 1,876]

Reggie McNeal, Sirr Parker & Leon O’Neal

[Earl Haffler 584]

[Guest]

Darren Sproles
 

Edited May 16, 2023 by FirstTimeCaller

[Guest]

Wes Welker

Edited May 16, 2023 by FirstTimeCaller

[elguapo 4,583]

1 hour ago, Uncle Nate said:

Terrell Owens?   Didn't he go to like Tennessee-Chattanooga or something like that?

 

Yeah, I'm an idiot.

[Uncle Nate 2,097]

38 minutes ago, Earl Haffler said:

Just ahead of his time.  

[tx ind 6,998]

53 minutes ago, cochamps said:

Reggie McNeal, Sirr Parker & Leon O’Neal

 

Edited May 16, 2023 by tx ind

[Davis Lane 5,553]

[tx ind 6,998]

Could add Kavontae Turpin to the list

[Goodman 3,273]

This guy was a walking nightmare.

So was he. Watching a young Robison attempt to and block extra-points/fg's has not been matched. 

All time freak:

[Pam Cummings 9,576]

Tyreek Hill?

[Tex Pete 20,177]

2 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Darren Sproles
 

Sproles is near the top of the list for sure. Hell, seems like all K-State players from 1996-about 2010 should be on the list.

Jordy Nelson still haunts my dreams.

 

 

[sidis 9,743]

3 hours ago, elguapo said:

Derka's excellent thread and our impending departure from the big 12 got me thinking about who the freakiest players from the conference have been.

I'll start with the 10 that first came to mind for me:

VY

Ricky

Bijan

Mahomes

Adrian Peterson

Evil Roy Williams

Suh

Terrell Owens

RG3

Von Miller

 

Who you got?

 

 

 

other than what you have here, i would add:

terrence newman

derrick johnson

grant winstrom

darren sproles

then there's a second level of guys that all have a strong argument to be in the top tier including: cedric benson, bradford, colt, troy davis, derrick strait, crabtree, dat nguyen, earl thomas.

[Vertigo 20,266]

 

Jordy Nelson

 

Quentin Griffin

 

Evil Roy

 

Virtuous Roy

 

Casey Hampton

 

Michael Crabtree

 

Corey Coleman

Ramonce Taylor

Dez Bryant

 

Michael Bishop

 

 

Case McCoy

Edited May 16, 2023 by Vertigo

[elguapo 4,583]

Brad Smith

[ChiTownDoc 21,098]

I'll never forget when Terrell Owens cried about how much he loved Case McCoy after the 12 championship.  Good times. 

[TrashMaster G 17,387]

The Gap Kid!

[Bevo14 8,274]

 

[Wally Fairway 5,521]

Earl (if you have to ask which Earl then just show yourself out)

Barry Sanders

 

but then I'm older than most of you

[Armybrat 40,735]

How soon do you myopic sumbitches forget?

 

[Codaxx 5,601]

17 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Wes Welker

I did not think I would see a 5'9" White guy with a 4.65 40 time in a thread about freaks. 

https://ras.football/2020/01/23/wes-welker-ras/#:~:text=This player did not have,3.13 score out of 10.0.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Codaxx said:

I did not think I would see a 5'9" White guy with a 4.65 40 time in a thread about freaks. 

https://ras.football/2020/01/23/wes-welker-ras/#:~:text=This player did not have,3.13 score out of 10.0.

Somebody obviously didn't watch 2002 Texas versus Texas Tech.

[Codaxx 5,601]

4 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Somebody obviously didn't watch 2002 Texas versus Texas Tech.

Freaks usually has a athletic connotation to it. It is not every good player. Colt is one of the best Big 12 players ever, but I would not put him on the list of Big 12 freaks.  

[TrashMaster G 17,387]

10 hours ago, Wally Fairway said:

Earl (if you have to ask which Earl then just show yourself out)

Barry Sanders

 

but then I'm older than most of you

They never played in the Big XII

[Guest]

Man, I miss the old Big 12. It was a good conference. Rivalries, made geographic sense, and there was a nice mix of teams. 

[BluTechsan 393]

18 minutes ago, Codaxx said:

Freaks usually has a athletic connotation to it. It is not every good player. Colt is one of the best Big 12 players ever, but I would not put him on the list of Big 12 freaks.  

I agree with you on Colt’s B12 career. A baller every time he stepped onto the field.

But Wes is a freak for different reasons - just ask Brady and Manning. 

[Wally Fairway 5,521]

8 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

They never played in the Big XII

good point - I just glom teams into their current conference names, which is just me yelling at clouds

[Guest]

Wes' freakiness isn't captured in a combine/ gym shorts.

Mofo had instincts off the charts and just fucking got open/ made incredible reads.  His hands were outstanding.

Freaky players also: Martin Gramatica & Dusty Dvoracek, for different reasons.

[Codaxx 5,601]

4 minutes ago, slorch said:

Wes' freakiness isn't captured in a combine/ gym shorts.

Mofo had instincts off the charts and just fucking got open/ made incredible reads.  His hands were outstanding.

Freaky players also: Martin Gramatica & Dusty Dvoracek, for different reasons.

Like I said if "freak" is just going to mean good at football, than people like Colt need to be in here. 

[Guest]

Bristol Olamua. TE , 6'5" 260#  was injured quite a bit, but was a freaky build for a TE with some speed.

Rylan Reed, LT( of Orakpo hold fame) 6'6", 308#; 

In 2003, Reed was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and underwent surgery to remove a tumor and three feet of his intestines. After several months of chemotherapy, Reed lost 30 pounds. When he recovered from the cancer treatment, his father was killed in an automobile accident. He returned to the White Sox in 2004, shortly after the death of his father, but his earned run average soared to 14.54 in five games for the Great Falls White Sox

After retiring from baseball in 2004, Reed enrolled at Texas Tech University, where he played college football.^[8] He began as a tight end as a freshman in 2005, before being moved to offensive tackle.^[9] After gaining 60 pounds, he became a starter for Texas Tech in 2007 and 2008.^[10] Reed set a Texas Tech record in 2008 with a 625-pound bench press.  He was a 1st team all American in 2008 on the Walter Camp and SI.com lists.

Edited May 17, 2023 by slorch

[HornOnTheBayou 8,881]

Ndamukong Suh. End of the list.

Edited May 17, 2023 by HornOnTheBayou

[Pokoloco 1,270]

 

[Guest]

24 minutes ago, Pokoloco said:

 

I was today years old when I realized Tyreek Hill went to OSU. I thought he was a Miami/UF/FSU guy.

[Guest]

12 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

Yeah, many of these responses are just great football players and not guys who were uniquely freakish from an athletic standpoint.  Other than the Texas guys listed in the other thread, and assuming we’re only doing Big 12 years (no going back for Barry Sanders or whoever), then I’d add the following:

Mahomes - maybe the strongest throwing arm ever

Suh

Adrian Peterson

Dez Bryant 

Lane Johnson 

Trent Williams

Von Miller

RG3

 

Lol. "Don't talk about the football players that were really good at football. Only talk about guys that were great athletes."

The list of guys who were "uniquely freakish" from an athletic standpoint that didn't do much is long and sad.

[Brian Fantana 6,667]

Lots of great names mentioned here, I'd add a few that really stood out to me over the years:

Aaron Hunt (Tech) and more recently, Will McDonald (Iowa State) - Hunt was still the lone reigning all-time sack leader in the Big 12 conference, had a inhuman knack for getting to the QB, until McDonald tied his record last year I think?

Derrick Johnson (Texas), Roy Williams (Texas) - Kind of fit in the same category, even though they played different positions. What monsters those guys were, it was very rare to see players at their size and speed in their positions in college at the time.

Tommie Frazier/Eric Crouch (Nebraska) - Both terrifying to play against for basically the same exact reason

Terence Newman (Kansas State) - Everything you'd ever want in a DB ever. Nothing more to say.

Roy Williams (Oklahoma) - Just a smart and extremely intimidating defender all around, one of the all timers

Woods brothers (Oklahoma State) - OSU legends for a reason, helped lay the foundation for their program to build

And to dip straight in the clown bag:

LaQuan McGowan (Baylor) - 400lb tight end, what else is there to say? WTF?

 

[Tex Pete 20,177]

Wes

6 hours ago, Brian Fantana said:

Lots of great names mentioned here, I'd add a few that really stood out to me over the years:

Aaron Hunt (Tech) and more recently, Will McDonald (Iowa State) - Hunt was still the lone reigning all-time sack leader in the Big 12 conference, had a inhuman knack for getting to the QB, until McDonald tied his record last year I think?

Derrick Johnson (Texas), Roy Williams (Texas) - Kind of fit in the same category, even though they played different positions. What monsters those guys were, it was very rare to see players at their size and speed in their positions in college at the time.

Tommie Frazier/Eric Crouch (Nebraska) - Both terrifying to play against for basically the same exact reason

Terence Newman (Kansas State) - Everything you'd ever want in a DB ever. Nothing more to say.

Roy Williams (Oklahoma) - Just a smart and extremely intimidating defender all around, one of the all timers

Woods brothers (Oklahoma State) - OSU legends for a reason, helped lay the foundation for their program to build

And to dip straight in the clown bag:

LaQuan McGowan (Baylor) - 400lb tight end, what else is there to say? WTF?

 

Wes Welker definitely belongs on any Big 12 list. And fuck OU. 

[Brian Fantana 6,667]

4 hours ago, Tex Pete said:

Wes

Wes Welker definitely belongs on any Big 12 list. And fuck OU. 

Yeah for sure but people already brought him up in this thread so /shrug

[Tex Pete 20,177]

2 hours ago, Brian Fantana said:

Yeah for sure but people already brought him up in this thread so /shrug

Oh, I know. I was just reiterating him. And making sure everyone knows where I stand on the Oklahoma football team.